How Do we work with Lieberman?

OK.

So the election is over, and we have another six years of Joe Lieberman in the senate.

How do we deal with that?

How do we hold him accountable to promises he has made?

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Joe Lieberman has already broken faith and a number of promises with us, the general public, and especially his constituents in CT.

He promised a self-imposed three-term limit on himself.

Promise broken.

He promised to go vote on issues when we elected him to the senate three times.

Over 400 missed votes in the last decade.

He chose to ignore the will of his party in the Democratic primary.

He chose to equate dissent and disagreement with disloyalty, and brand those of us who disagree with him as enemies.

So these are the things I am thinking of when I am asking "How can we work with Joe Lieberman moving forward?"

How do we hold him accountable to what we expect?

He has promised to caucus with Democrats, but said he will vote "more independently", whatever that means.

The bottom line is, he is here for the next six years and we can either deal with it or alienate him over to the other side.

I'm not interested in kissing his ass, but he's got a lot of weight, perhaps even too much power, due to the structure of the 110th Congress.

Personally, I am not sure I can think of any ideas right now, but I wanted to start a discussion on this because it is an important issue and it is not going to go away.